

Rising
Dispatches from the New American Shore
Author: Elizabeth Rush
Narrator: Coleen Marlo
Unabridged: 7 hr 41 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 11/06/2018
Author: Elizabeth Rush
Narrator: Coleen Marlo
Unabridged: 7 hr 41 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 11/06/2018
Elizabeth Rush’s journalism has appeared in the Washington Post, Harper's, Guernica, Granta, Orion, and the New Republic, among others. She is the recipient of fellowships and grants including the Howard Foundation Fellowship, awarded by Brown University; the Andrew Mellon Foundation Fellowship for Pedagogical Innovation in the Humanities; the Metcalf Institute Fellowship; and the Science in Society Journalism Award from the National Association of Science Writers. She received her MFA in nonfiction from Southern New Hampshire University and her BA from Reed College. She lives in Rhode Island, where she teaches creative nonfiction at Brown University.
A sobering, elegant look at rising waters, climate change, and how low lying areas and the vulnerable people who live in those areas are at risk.......more
Rising is a sobering and unflinching look at the impact of rising sea levels from the front lines--those coastal communities dealing with hurricanes, flooding and loss of property. What this book does best is bring the theoretical problem of climate change to the here and now. It isn't some potentia......more
Powerful, emotive, lyrical, personal stuff on climate change, particularly rising sea levels, ... but ... at so many different levels ... very different from some of the heavier, (often drier) technical doomsday genre. A beautiful (and terrible) piece of creative nonfiction (to me, an admittedly int......more